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Founding of the Sholem Aleichem Library
Izchok Rywkin founded the Sholem Aleichem Library in Bialystok.
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... This veritable treasury was collected over a period
of years. The founder of the library, who gave it all his
free time and full commitment, was the Bundist Izchok
Rywkin. All of Bialystok knew that he was not just the
library’s administrator but its heart and soul as well.
His life was devoted to Yiddish books and rare manu-
scripts. Always striving to enlarge the collection of the
Sholem Aleichem Library, he often traveled to Warsaw
to buy new books for his beloved child, the library. He
frequently confronted people with his inability to
understand how they could occupy themselves with
other matters besides the library. Later he was extermi-
nated by the Nazis. ...Connected nodes